Hi,
The theater company I run finally found a space for a small black box. With South Orange County Ca. rent, we are going to be a lot like the other houses in the area. 50 seats in a warehouse/business park.
From stage left to right our playing space is 27 feet and about 40 feet deep.
Our board voted to do a small LED rig and grow as we can.
Currently we have
10 Chauvet Quad 2 Zoom Tours
3 Chauvet E 190
Its not much, but it will give us a general wash and a couple of lights to focus while we get up and running. We plan on adding more in the not too distant future
Here is my issue, I do not know what light board to get or if I should do a PC based controller.
The company we are buying the lights from recommends we do either the Chauvet Obey 70 or the Chauvet Express 512. If I understand this right, these systems are ok for some things, but not really for a theater environment.
Finally, we have been thrown a bit of a curveball because the city building dept. is trying to make us make outrcontrol booth ADA accessible, which it physically can't be. So that means we need to have the option to have some portability in case we ever hire someone in a wheel chair.
I know there are some programs that let you run thru an iPad, but I do not know what they are. To be honest, this will probably not happen anytime soon, but we need to show the building Dept that we have the option.
We do not have a huge budget, maybe $1500 or so.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
The theater company I run finally found a space for a small black box. With South Orange County Ca. rent, we are going to be a lot like the other houses in the area. 50 seats in a warehouse/business park.
From stage left to right our playing space is 27 feet and about 40 feet deep.
Our board voted to do a small LED rig and grow as we can.
Currently we have
10 Chauvet Quad 2 Zoom Tours
3 Chauvet E 190
Its not much, but it will give us a general wash and a couple of lights to focus while we get up and running. We plan on adding more in the not too distant future
Here is my issue, I do not know what light board to get or if I should do a PC based controller.
The company we are buying the lights from recommends we do either the Chauvet Obey 70 or the Chauvet Express 512. If I understand this right, these systems are ok for some things, but not really for a theater environment.
Finally, we have been thrown a bit of a curveball because the city building dept. is trying to make us make outrcontrol booth ADA accessible, which it physically can't be. So that means we need to have the option to have some portability in case we ever hire someone in a wheel chair.
I know there are some programs that let you run thru an iPad, but I do not know what they are. To be honest, this will probably not happen anytime soon, but we need to show the building Dept that we have the option.
We do not have a huge budget, maybe $1500 or so.
Any help will be greatly appreciated